Reposted here: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74 This is too insightful to be lost in the cracks of HN.

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689731 :)

I have the same experience in an established tech company in the bay area.

Exactly the same has happened - lots of new hires. Bad management. Really silly review process. Features are valued over fixing things.

There's no mentorship process for said new hires. This has obvious flow-on effects.

The old timers don't get promoted into management but end up fixing more and more bugs (because they're the ones that know stuff well enough to fix said bugs.) They get frustrated and leave, or they just give up and take a pay check.

The management values "time to deliver" over any kind of balance with "fix existing issues", "make things better", "fix long standing issues", "do code/architecture review to try and improve things over the long run."

They're going to get spanked if anyone shows up in their marketspace. Oh wait, but they're transitioning to an IP licensing company instead of "make things people buy." So even if they end up delivering crap, their revenue comes from licensing patents and IP rather than making things. Oops.

Thank god there's a startup mentality in the bay area.

The original author has requested that the hash and filename he used in the begging to prove his identity be removed.

Can't edit the post :( I emailed pg@ and [email protected] an hour ago already to ask for redaction.

Can you delete it and re-post a redacted one?

I had pg@ delete my HN post, so to leave only the properly re-edited version on my blog.